segment on revenge important? is it a crime? >> it's wednesday. which means the work week is half over. unless you're congress. they are gone for the week and returning monday. tea party darling michele bachmann, as you might have heard, is quitting. she announced that decision in a pretty bizarre eight-minute youtube video last night. perhaps her stint as presidential candidate inflewened her decision. maybe she thought she won? >> the law limit anyone from serving as president of the united states for more than eight years. and in my opinion, well, eight years is also long enough for an individual to serve as a representative for a specific congressional district. be assured, my decision was not in any way influenced by any concerns about my being re-elected to congress.

>> well, that makes all of us happy for you. meantime, up and coming power player in the senate, texas republican ted cruz is in the big apple tonight. he will head loin a new york republican party annual state dinner. that's a big deal around here and further fuelling speculation about his future political plans. also first lady michelle obama back in new york at dnc gala, featuring jason collins. he made history last month as first active pro athlete to announce he was gay. a lot to talk about with "politico's" political reporter jake sherman. welcome. >> thanks for having me. >> before we get into the new york politics here, can you think that john boehner will stick to his plan to let the senate lead on immigration and everything else or is there room for the house to take any kind of action when they get back? >> there is no question that the senate is going to pass their bill before the house does. the house doesn't even have a bill yet. as you guys have talked about on the show and is well known, the house is not produced anything.

they are working right now. senate plan john boehner said can't pass the house. so he probably won't even put it on the floor. and there is open question whether a house bill can pass the house. actually, open question whether anything could frankly pace the house on immigration. >> jake, i'm not going to ask you to join in the bachmann pile-on. let's talk about something else. >> we can talk about that later. >> i'm sure someone else will ask you to. mitch mcconnell has a new ad up called, demand answers. it features some of our friends at msnbc. it is a scathing critique of the obama's administration's policy. take a look. >> there a culture and intimidation throughout the administration. >> irs began singling out tea party groups. >> have you any conservative leaning background affiliation, they will target you and come after you. this isn't speculation. they are admitting it. >> is this still america. >> these are things that drive the obama economy and drive an

agener aagenda which we have seen again and again has little regard for those who descend. either party is more powerful than the constitution of the united states. >> the president's been criticized for his communication strategy on this scandal. where do you think it goes in congress over the next few weeks or months in. >> i don't think this will end. there is no appetite for the investigation to end. i think they are widening the judiciary committee and widening into the procedure of ap phone records. and this mcconnell ad is very well timed. as obama, as we know, is not very popular in kentucky. he is running a campaign against no -- >> it is a threat -- >> and democrats think they can beat mitch mcconnell. but you can't beat something with nothing. and right now they have nothing. >> hurts nothing's feelings sometimes. >> i will ask you to join the

michele bachmann pile-on. without michele bachmann in the house, we will miss out on good stuff like this. >> the tea party is a dynamic force for good in our national conversation. back in the 1970s, the swine flu broke out then under another democrat president, jimmy carter. and i'm not blaming this on president obama, i just think it is an interesting coincidence. >> executive director of planned parenthood in illinois says they want to become the lens crafter of big abortion. >> you think obama has anti-american views. >> i'm very concerned he has anti-american views. >> there is a gaff that cause med to fall in the viewes. >> jake, i think there is happiness on both sides of the aisle here for republicans. in 2012 she barely won a district that romney ran away with.

romney got 56 .5%. republicans shed a congresswoman who is vulnerable. but for democrats she is vulnerable and targeted. but they couldn't knock her off. she kept winning and winning and winning and she was the best fund-raiser in the house by far raised $20 million in 2012. that is -- allen west comes kind of close and there's a huge gap for tammy duck worth. democrats are kind of glad it get rid of her. republicans are kind of glad to get rid of her. everyone is happy here. >> i think the republican he are the happiest because they will keep the seat now. jim graves from that district said he would run again. democrats were frustrate fed to 12 that they didn't put more of his own money in the race. they thought co-have won. but they will probably keep the seat now. but the larger point here is bachmann found out very quickly that money does not necessarily equal power in washington. she's never been a real legislative player and back home

obviously as we just saw be she wasn't safe. in her intro, in the video you showed at the top of the show, she said she was sure she would win reelection. as mike alan says, when someone says it isn't about at money, it generally is about the money. so i think it is an open question whether she would have won reelection. but the district is relatively safe for her. >> i think that's an interesting point you make there, jake, about the limit to doing an end run around. the normal establishment. because as prolific as a fund-raiser as she was, as well known as she was, she had to do things like giving tea party state of the union response which didn't go over very well. her presidential campaign obviously didn't go over very well. so there seemed to be some limits to exactly how far she should go. but i actually wanted to talk back to the senate and immigration bill, obviously as you know, pass the senate judiciary committee last week. great to see that progress. one disappointment for a lot of

liberals was that there was not an amendment offered to allow foreign same-sex couples to sponsor the same-sex partner for a grown card. disappointment there, but have you seen much of the backlash from lgbt rights groups about that amendment not being included as we noted at the top, michelle baum today, add a dnc gala featuring jason collins. so have we seen much backlash there? >> i think there's been some. but i think proponents of immigration reform, whether they are lbgt or not, realize that would not get through the house. if anything gets through the house, which is i think still an open question, what certainly wouldn't make it through the house of representatives. we have it keep in mind here that john boehner has trouble keeping the lights on in the house of representatives. has trouble funding the government. raising the debt ceiling. passing a highway bill. fossaing a farm bill. doing things that used to pass by huge bipartisan majority.

doing things like immigration reform is extraordinary difficult and provision like that makes it more difficult and plus to get it through the senate, there is a question whether the immigration bill makes it through the senate. harry reid said today he thinks it'll get 60 votes. as we all know, that could change the the drop of a time. >> to that point, jake, what is the pathway forward for the immigration bill? are we going to see another situation where john boehner is force put something to a vote where he doesn't have majority of his caucus on? >> he said absolutely not. he said he will not do that. he won't get jammed, as he put it, bit senate's bill. i think he realizes that his leadership depends on this. i'm not saying he will lose the speaker's gavel but conservatives are increasingly frustrated that they have majority but don't appear to be using it. and if john boehner puts a bill on the floor that doesn't have the majority of the majority, the republican conference, he

risks backlash. that's why he pushed so hard for the house group to come up with something, anything, so he could say he passed immigration reform and they could have a more formal conference but that makes nancy pelosi's comment that it could be finished by august sound absurd. according to the people i speak to on capitol hill, when think this will go until december. so we can see another stare down with new year's eve and new year's day and we could be in the capitol. >> this is fast and furious and they keep making the sequels. >> we wish they would stop, actually. >> jake sherman, our congressional vacation correspondent. >> thank you. >> i like that. >> we got also breaking weather news this afternoon. let's get right to it. nbc meteorologist dylan dreyer. >> yeah, we will see a lot of storms in the areas across the country. but the area we will focus in on specifically is right back into the plains, nebraska, kansas, oklahoma and panhandle of texas. can you see a closer look.

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a long running controversy about the name. first of all, we should say, daniel snyder did weigh in on this controversy. he said to usa today, we'll never change the name. it's that simple. never. you can use caps. so we know where he stands on this issue. this is the first team, washington redskins, that i ever cared about. i grew up watching this team as a little girl. this is one of the only teams i care about. i am somewhat embarrassed to be a fan of a team that has such an offensive name. i fe i don't want to say anything on twitter. how can you support a team that has such a racist name. as fan, it is time to move on. let it go. >> the term red skin is a slur. so the team is named after a slur. this is disgustingly naked.

and it normalizes racism. normalizes prejudice to use this term all over the place. even when you think about where it came from, george martial, one of the original owners, he owned a team called the boston braves and there was a football team in the nfl called the boston braves which he named to redskins and moved to washington. he is noted as one the racist individuals in the nfl. you can look that up. but this was the last nfl franchise to desegregate. in 1962. that late. so what we're doing and what daniel snider is doing, is fighting for the racism that george martial baked into this team. i'm just trying to think about another race having to deal with the same sort of thing. and until 1965 there was a minor league baseball team called the

atlanta crackers. at some point someone said we can no longer deal with this. this has to end. surely that would not go on in 2013. why does this good on in 2013? >> i'm not big on word police p ing. but this is so crazy racist. i've had conversations over the years with friend, that i can't believe this name still exist. but i did some digging around on this segment and i found interesting poll results. 4 and 5 americans don't think the team should change its name. more interestingly, a poll taken a few years ago, 2 003, found that 90% of native americans are okay with the name. i don't know if that should mean anything as we litigate this. but i thought it was interesting. >> smallpox blankets might have been very popular among some communities originally. but ultimately not for people subject to the genocide. it is interesting that maybe the

modern native meriden community doesn't see this as their primary fight. i think it is incredibly offensive. the whole term dates back to the proclamation when colonial massachusetts set out a genocide policy and handed out 50 pound for native american scalps. the bloodied scalps were called redskins. it is not only offensive for the reasons you have said. i echo what you are all saying. but it is literally a reference to the bloody genocide against native american people that many of us replaced ancestorly in this country. i love what krystal said. fans have to reassess and make that decision as people. i'm more comfortable with congress getting involved. trade mark law is different and people can get into the weeds of how trade marks you can regular lit and trade mark office is

definitely caught being really inconsistent because they reject a trade mark for the word heeb but accepted this one and this is litigate fled court. i would like to see it stop with people power, not the government. >> i agre. i also want to see the chiefs, braves, indians, florida state seminoles and all of them stop. why are the names based on this group of americans. that doesn't make sense. >> and we should note they do not have to change to a name as lame as the washington wizards. another team i actually really like. that's our take on it. but what do you at home think? we took the question to facebook to find out what our friend there are saying. >> kim gamble says, oh, please. if the pc crowd doesn't stop, we're not going to be able to leave our house. but paul disagrees and said a name and logo change are both needed. which side are you on? get off the bench and into the

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the senate took a vacation this week, but it has a lot of work left to do. there are nine judicial nominees pending on the senate floor right now and key cabinet posts like labor secretary and environmental protection director are still waiting for senate confirmation. there are reports president obama want to force republicans to vote on the nominees or admit destruction. the d.c. circuit, of course the most important appeals court in

the country, republicans say they are treating the nominees fairly and moving at a normal pace. but numbers do not back that up. among the last five presidents, obama is the only one facing delays for half a year of judicial nominees. that's according to a nonpartisan library report. while president bush's nominees waited 34 days for a vote, senate forced obama nominees to wait an average of 116 days. in many cases those delays have completely prevented people from ever taking their post and guest spot today to help us unsort these details is president of the alliance for justice. how are you? >> thanks so much for having me. >> absolutely. i spoke to an official who said the times is a little bit out ahead. but the numbers do make clear that this is worse than ever before in history. why is that? >> i think that it is very clear what is happening. republicans are engaged in a

relentless effort to keep as many seats open, this is judicial vacancies open, for a future republican president to fill. they simply do not want the president to put his people on the courts. and actually, this has such real life implications for all of us. because so many of our courts today, particularly at the circuit court level, are dominated by judges, appointed by republican presidents who use litness test and those who sought to turn the clock back on individual rights and liberties and republicans want to maintain control of the circuits so they can control the outcome of the cases that the judges are hearing. >> and it seems to me like the senate used to operate on some unspoken principals of at least

some form of cooperation and camaraderie. are we at a point now where we actually need it change the rules, that there is no scolding, there is no pub lk awareness, that is going to change the situation? we really need to have filibuster reform. if we're going to have a more orderly press says where you can get people in place where there can actually be government? >> well, you're right, krystal. this is unprecedented, what's happening. we have never had almost every judicial nominee filibustered. republicans say, oh, it just tit-for-tat. but the fact of the matter is, democrats engaged in very few filibusters. republicans have this endless appetite to obstruct and filibuster. this will all come to a head in july, when, as ari said, all of

these nominees will be up before the senate. hopefully immigration will be passed. and we will then have the perfect storm. and that would require republicans to allow the senate to do what the senate is supposed to do and that is vote on confirmations. >> and part of what you are talking about is the politicization, and affected by the hyper partisan at moss for in d.c. now days. and we can sort of quantify this in robert's court. they have had more 5-4 party line decisions than any court in history. and it feels like this po

litization. >> well we have seen the politization, when there were justices and judges put on the supreme court. anti-civil rights. anti-environmental and worker protections and we are now seeing republicans trying to maintain control of this judiciary and that's important because the judiciary and i would say the d.c. circuit at the fullcrum of this debate in january, this is the court that decide some of the most critical issues affecting all of us. the air we breath, water we drink, kind of right all of us have. individual liberties. so this is really important, who sits on these courts. and of course i should just add,

if the senate can't con frirm gina mccarthy to the environmental protection agency or tom perez to be labor secretary, this means agencies can't function effectively. because they need leaders. so i think what we are seeing is republicans going all out in an effort to bring government to a halt. >> ma'am, let me just get in real quick. it seems like you're indicting republicans for wanting conservative appointees. but i imagine you would probably like liberal appointees on these courts. but the white house is insisting that additional judges are needed on the d.c. circuit and particular because it lacks a balance. full-time active judges are split 4-4. d.c. circuit struck down some obama administration rules. but some other doozies he calls them, like administration

greenhouse gas rules have gotten through. the bush administration bpa had a harder time than the obama epa. is has the d.c. circuit really been that unfriendly to the obama administration? in. >> in case after case, whether it is involving rules, implementing dodd-frank, whether it is involving cigarette warnings, for young people, whether it is allowing the department of labor to have additional people at the helm, epa regulations, this particular court led by judges who used lit nous tests, hostile to workers

rights, consumer and environmental protection. >> well, there are plenty of examples where they haven't. >> most recently there were epa regulations involving air pollution. so i think if you look at the recent history of this circuit, you will see a court driven by ultra conservatives to reach result that really are very harmful to all of us. >> nan, i appreciate you walking us through that. i think another time we will do an hour of d.c. jurisprudence with a battle. we will good all deep on that. >> let's do it. >> we'll do it. thank you for spending time with us, and richard krourdry is another one of those examples. thank you for spending time with us on it. also on this memorial day woke end, up next a closer look at one of the first battle grounds

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desegry gate the rest of america. but even after america was desegregated, black soldiers still had it rough. many have said that black soldiers had it worsed on their bases than nazi pows. the dual battle is the subject of double v, how wars, protest and harry truman desegregated the military. >> werawn james junior, great grandson of a black solder with. why did truman desegregate the military? >> congress at the time, particularly the senate, run by the most senior members who hailed from the southern states, they were not going to pass any

sort of legislation to truly advance civil rights as truman saw needed to be done. secondly, he believed this was the right thing to do. since the time when he was a united states senator, harry truman had been sensitive to the plight of african-americans, despite whatever personal misgivings he had from being raised in what we called a violently prejudice southern family. >> who is isaac woodward and how did he impact this story? >> isaac woodward was an army technical sergeant discharged after world war ii. honorably discharged. he was riding a bus in south carolina with some army friend of his, headed back home. and he asked the bus driver if he could please use the rest room at the next stop pt. the white bus driver said, boy, please go sit back down. woodward said, i'm a man, you will address me as a man.

the bus driver pulled over and had him pulled off. he was beaten by two police officers. he was beaten so bad that it ruptured his two eye balls. truman said, he did not real eyes it was that bad. if he had a deciding moment in desegregating, it might have been that moment. >> not everyone has willing to accept that. kenneth cleburne royal was forced into early retirement for refusing to desegregate the army a year after the order was issueed. how did servicemen confront that resistant and deal with that resistance that continued after the order was given without falling apart and turning on each other p? >> the branches acted differently. the army air corps was a separate branch along with the united states navy. they began to desegregate. the army proved in trance jent. the army, particularly senior

officers, did not want it desegregate its branch. president truman's order was two years old. >> you mentioned that truman saw this as one step forward on a broader march towards civil rights. and equality. how did desegregating the military impact that broader struggle? >> well, as toure noted in the introduction, the fight for double victory, victor against racism, abroad and against fascism at home, became the first victory in what we call the civil rights movement. president truman spoke to all white audiences about what he called the brothermen of all men before the law. he said, we owed negros legal equality. he believed he today do what he had to do under political power, to bring about what he could for legal equality. when he said the brothermen of

all men before the law, he was referring to the law. not as widely known as the time at social equality. he believed that african-americans should be able to vote and go about their business without being subject to violence. >> sometimes it is about presidents empowering people and people taking it a step further. when soldiers came home from having fought in the army and fought world war ii and helped win the victory for out, they said, why are we putting up with this at home and they took it a step further themselves? >> yes, they did. many of the veterans. individual we see, the nameless individuals we see on many of the pictures during the civil right movement that truly took off in the mid 50s and through 60s, many were world war ii veterans. they fought for their country abroad and came home it fight for their rights at home. albeit nonviolently. >> all right, ron james junior. interesting book, interesting stuff. thank you very much. >> thank you. >> up next, the segment that everyone at this table has been waiting for all day long. and so have you. we are going to talk about

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and what hypothetical -- >> makes him sound like a nice guy. >> or he used to steal with work. or cheated on me with a dude. that, i'm sure happens all the time. and we don't have those kinds of lawsuits coming out everyday because you can share that privileged information, you know, if you're a jerk and you decide to. if i tell krystal a secret and tell her in confidence, am i going to sue her because she then goes and tells ari about it. >> you're not going to, right? >> i might. >> i think we want this information to be different. i'm just not sure that it actually is. >> there's another term for this, other than revenge porn, which sounds to me, it sounds oddly glamorous and intriguing, which is cyber rape. i think that speaks more to the heart of what is being done here. to me, why this is different, is there are few things more damning and undermining and

humiliating for a woman than being labelled or called a slut. this is ultimate proof that pulling the woman's clothes off in the public square and saying this woman is a slut. she is not to be trusted in her life. she is to be laughed at and embarrassed. there are cases of women who have been stalked with this. years of time have gone by where photos have been reposted and reposted and employers. and it is unbelievable and so i think in that way, it is different. you mentioned mr. moore, who is the sort of king pen of revenge porn web sites, which is just horrific. but lest we think this is some small part of the internet, i think this behavior towards women is shockingly common. some form of it. not this specific thing. but you know, much more

mainstream, facebook reisn'tly, taken to task by a group of -- women's groups that wrote a letter to them saying that they were being too permissive with what they were allowing to be posted on their site and not taken down. there was a group called violently raping your friend just for laughs on facebook. there was a seven-minute long video of a woman being gang raped. the happy ending here so far, at least, is that because their sponsors started to put pressure on them, facebook has now responded and said, we will do a better job policing gender based hate. but this is a widespread problem. >> it's a cultural problem. >> that's such an important point, krystal. it is this huge cultural issue. we make a great mistake, many of us make it when we want to otherwi other siize the victim. even if they did make a choice they would regret or were irresponsible, that is not a license for this. i did like one thing you said. i looked at it a little

differently. you hit the nail on the head i thought when you said nonconsensual porn. that gets to the heart of it. enlisting someone and essentially using the tools we have available today, this technology, to enlist them in something that they didn't choose to do. and repurposing the context that they did something. and there are many other ways that we have, privacy and contracts in the law that are maintained. if you work for an employer and you run off and take material that was the fruits of that labor, you could get in a lot of trouble for going and putting that on the internet. you can get sued. you can owe a lot of money. in some cases you can go to jail. i don't think so much that outside of a marriage contract that these relationships mean that you are just up for everything you did can go public. particularly if you own it. the secret example is a tougher one. in law we often look at the hypothetica hypotheticals. how is this different than that? one way it's different, this is you. if it's something you took, you have the copyright. it's your photograph. you have some control of it. if you release it to the world or leave it in a park, that's one thing.

if you grant someone a right to it, your doctor, your psychiatrist, your accountant, your employer in a certain context can look at your passport, it doesn't mean they can just pass it on to everyone. the last thing i'll say is woody hartzoz in the atlantic, law professor, said we need to shift the law to look at that confidentiality piece. honor some of these people and protect them. >> confidentiality is an important part of this. we talk about attorney-client privilege. in a relationship it's something similar. i don't want to live in a world where my wife -- we should live in a society where you can trust your partner enough that you can have that sort of relationship. and we see the seriousness of this when we think about tyler clementi tay. videotaped in an act and ended up killing himself because part of what you have in a situation is a massive amount of shame when the pictures, videos are

exposed to the entire world via the internet. it can never be taken down. you get into the streisand effect. the more you fight the more public it becomes. you're hurting yourself by fighting against it. i wouldn't be surprised if we see more people ending up killing themselves because they get into these situations that their reputations are shredded because of this sort of revenge porn, cyber rape. >> yeah. >> it's ugly stuff. i think we should also do a segment, maybe, on photoshop porn. that's another issue that some of us have to deal with. up next, what congress is really up to this week. turns out not so much. but don't change the channel. if you do, you'll miss ari's take on the joke that is congress. [ male announcer ] erica had a rough day. there was this and this. she got a parking ticket... ♪ and she forgot to pay her credit card bill on time. good thing she's got the citi simplicity card. it doesn't charge late fees or a penalty rate. ever.

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after an exhausting week of scandal chasing, congress is, yes, now on vacation. most people are pretty cool with that because the republican house is shaping up to be an ineffective, hyperpartisan mess. but you knew that. today i want to look specifically at what congress has actually been doing. not their press conferences or showy hearings which tend to distract some of us in the media, but what items the house is bringing to the floor. that is, i think, where the priorities are revealed. if you listen to speaker boehner you'd think the house had one overarching priority. >> jobs continue to be our number one priority here in the congress. >> okay. that sounds fwood. b good. we can test whether boehner's claims are true. there's no filibuster in the house. the speaker just runs the place. if he wants to vote on a jobs

bill or ten jobs bills, he gets that vote. so far the house has racked up about 183 roll call votes. if you remove the ones for administration and symbolic gestures it's about 150. here are the results. the house has spent more time on debt and sequester spending cuts than any other issue. it's a quarter of the substantive votes. that's followed by votes on the keystone pipeline and related amendments. republicans have touted that as a back door jobs plan. one cornell study projects it would create about 3,000 to 6,000 jobs. the house has held votes on disaster relief which is politically unavoidable. a grab bag of pet issues from repealing obama care to privatizing the federal helium reserve. that last one was a hit. it's calmed the responsible helium administration and stewardship act. a bit of a mouthful. it passed on a vote of 394-1 in april.

look, we are not here to talk about the price of helium. we were fact checking speaker boehner. besides keystone it turns out only one vote out of the 183 was actually related to jobs. a bill to lower payment requirements in a veterans jobs program. that's it. so when speaker boehner says jobs are the number one priority, we know he's not telling the truth. other members can blame gridlock. but he can't. he is gridlock. and while he's found the time for votes to cut funding and repeal obama care, these numbers show he doesn't care about bringing a jobs bill to the floor. and so when it comes to addressing unemployment, our most significant domestic issue, this congress is on a permanent vacation. maybe they should stop worrying about unemployment -- maybe they should start worrying about unemployment themselves. what i'm saying is, i want them all fired. all right. that does it for "the cycle." martin, it's all yours. >> ari, you couldn't have said it better. good afternoon. it's wednesday, march 29th. it's michele bachmann and her limitless future. because, as she says, it takes a

lot of chutzpah. >> i will not seek a fifth congressional term. >> people are going to see a miracle. >> santa! >> this decision was not impacted by the recent inquiries into the activities of my former presidential campaign. >> i'm the original author of the bill to repeal obama care. >> before it literally kills women, kills children. >> little daughter took that vaccine, suffered from mental retardation thereafter. >> fight back against what most in the other party want to do. >> pay for someone to walk the president's dog? >> congresswoman, you're the one who brought it up. >> i've called out the muslim jihad terrorists for who they are. >> that's like the president of the titanic saying he's offended by the iceberg. >> there is no future option or opportunity that i won't be giving serious consideratio